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Obamacare : Free Healthcare That Is Not So Free

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Obamacare: Free Healthcare That Is Not So Free “If Obamacare is so wonderful, why is it that its loudest advocates don 't want to be subject to it,” stated Senator Ted Cruz. As financial and social hardships began to become apparent in the United States, one major problem facing the citizens and governing body is Health Care for all. Socialized medicine is a health care system where the government funds and runs health care facilities and employs the health care professionals, also paying for all health care amenities. This idea of giving high quality care to citizens previously unable to afford healthcare has caused problems in the United States, and this idea of “socialized medicine” has proven to create hardships in other countries in the past. Obamacare has introduced socialized medicine in the United States which has caused negative effects both financially and ethically. The first and most apparent negative impact on The United States from the 2010 Health Care Reform Act is the large financial ensue. Even though Obamacare will not be into full effect till the end of 2015, financial outings on the national debt and even the private sector have been through the roof put the United States in a tough situation. Government expenditures have begun to increase, and will only go up greatly with the full implementation of The Health Care Reform Act. Douglas Holtz-Eakin, the former Congressional Budget Office director for four years stated “From 2010 to 2019 the act will

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